The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-03-05


night. After he took the acid, he tried 70
save his life by taking antidotes.
Nimrod B. Dorsey, one of the leading RESI-
dents of the fourth district of Howard county,
died last Saturday morning at his home, near
Cooksville, after an illness of several weeks
of typhoid pneumonia, in his Goth year. Mr..
Dorsey was lifelong Democrat, and was
noted as one of the model farmers of his sec
ton. He was also an extensive cattle raiser.
Mr. Dorsey leaves widow and seven chill
dren. He was a brother of Messrs. Walter
and John R. Dorsey, of the fourth district.
Three dredgers, names unknown, are re-
ported to have been drowned Sunday off
rhomas's Point, below Annapolis. They
were returning to their vessel from shore With
q load of wood in yawlboat which swamped
with them. The boat contained four men,
one of whom was saved by getting ashore
with the aid of fsherman's pound net. The
survivor reported the drowning of his COM
panions to the fishermen ashore, who cared
for him. All efforts to recover the bodies
have so far proved fruitless.
Oliver E. Holland, who was on February
10, 1887, convicted in the United States Dis
:trct Court of sending indecent matter through
The mails, was on Wednesday sentenced by
Judge Morris to one year at hard labor in the
trial filed by his counsel vas ogerruled. The
sentence takes effect from the date of con-
viotion. When the sentence was pronounced
young Holland was seated beside his wife in
the court room. He threw himself forward
on the floor and cried out, ~ cannot stand
It'll" Mr.. Oliver A. Holland, father of the
prisoner, and Col. John C. Holland, his
uncle, assisted by Deputy Marshal Simpson,
raised the youth, and his wife tried to pacify
him. The scene was painful to all present.
Young Holland is twenty-five years old and
his wife is younger.
The Virginia Annual Conference Of the
United Brethren Church convened at Keedys-
Vile, Washington county, on Wednesday.
The conference numbers sixty seven minis
tiers, a large number of whom were present at
the opening session. Bishop j. Weaver, D.
D., Of Ohio, presides. Bishop Glossbrenner,
who died few months ago, was member of
this conference. Memorial services of thu
deceased bishop will be held at suitable
time during the present session. Perhaps the
most important action of the conference will
be the dividing of the body and the organiza
ton of a new conference, to be composed of
all the pastoral charges in the State Of Mary
land except Baltimore and Carroll counties
and the city of Baltimore, WHICH are included
in the Pennsylvania Conference. The new
Conference.
Casper Gussmau, six-year old son of John
Gussman, at Melvale, Baltimore county, was
killed on Wednesday in the machinery OF
Cummings ( Kemp's distillery. He had been
sent to call his father to dinner, who is a
cooper in the distilery. He stopped on the
way in the stillroom to hunt for hens eggs
There are two pieces of shafting in the room
running along the wall near the ground
From one of these shafts bolt projects from
The plate which holds tbs ends together. It
is supposed the bolt caught the boys Clothes
The engineer noticed the machinery jerking
several times, and going into the room to as
pertain the cause, saw the boys body was
twisted about the shafts and blood spaftercd
over the room. His father was called aud his
clothes had to be cut to release him. 1t was
found that half the bones in the boys body
we're broken and the back ofthe head crushed.
A number of the cadets Of the Maryland
Naval and Military Academy at Oxford, ial-
hot county, have left the institution. Some
have been e spelled aud others left of their own
accord. II appears that when Major Ge1sg,.
A. Armes, the present principal or supciin
tendent of the academy, took charge OF the
institution, in January Of this year, there We're
about 1876 students. For reasons not fnily or
clearly given yet by the Students many Of
them became displeased by Major Armes's
system, or through some other unexplained
cause, and left or were expelled. At the
present time there are about go cadets at the
academy. There are also Is or 20 at the
hotel in Oxford waiting for remittances from
their parents to enable them to relutii 10 their
homes. The Young men are from All parts Of
the United States, some Of them having come
from Texas and Oregon and other far-away
States